News and events

6 February 2018 After the necessary tests, IO PAS launched the first Argo float this year. The float was deployed from r/v Oceania in the Bornholm Basin. The device is the ARVOR-I type with the Iridium data transmission system.

Photos: Małgorzata Merchel

20 - 21 September 2017 - two Argo floats (WMO 3901940, 3901941) were launched in the Baltic Sea from the board of r/v Oceania. This year, these are the next two floats that were launched within the EU MOCCA project. The instruments are the ARVOR-I floats with Iridium transmission system.

At the end of June 2017 two Argo floats (WMO 3901910, 3901911) were deployed in the Norwegian Sea from the board of r/v Oceania. All instruments are the ARVOR-I floats with Iridium transmission system. The floats were deployed within the EU MOCCA project read more information

Photos: Agnieszka Beszczyńska-Möller

15 March 2017- IO PAS re-deployed the Argo float, which was recovered this February from the Baltic Sea. The float was launched from the board of r/v Oceania in the Slupsk Furrow. The instrument is the APEX float with Iridium transmission system.

03 February 2017 - another Polish float was launched in the Baltic Sea from the board of r/v Oceania. The instrument is the APEX float with Iridium transmission system.

Photos: Małgorzata Merchel

01 February 2017 - IO PAS recovered Argo test float, which was launched two months ago near the Bornholm Deep.

Photos: Małgorzata Merchel

29 November 2016 - from the board of r/v Oceania the first Polish Argo float in the Baltic Sea was deployed. The instrument is the APEX float with Iridium transmission system. Poland is the second country in the world (after Finland), which deploy Argo floats in the Baltic Sea.

Photos: Małgorzata Merchel

We tested our first Baltic Argo float at the end of October 2016. The tests were conducted in the pool of the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia, in the Department of Underwater Work Technologies. The tests came out successful, so we are ready for launching the float during the November cruise of r/v Oceania.

Film: Adam Olejnik

Photos: Małgorzata Merchel

Two Argo floats (WMO 3901850, 3901851) were deployed in the Norwegian Sea from the board of r/v Oceania at the end of June 2016. All instruments are the ARVOR-I floats with Iridium transmission system. Both floats were deployed under the EU MOCCA project read more information

Photos: Wojciech Głodek

5th Euro-argo User Workshop will take place in Ifremer, Brest, 16-17 March 2015 - see the website. Abstract submission deadline is 15th December.

On 12th May 2014, Euro-Argo ERIC was officially awarded the Community legal framework for a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Poland became a founding member among 9 other countries (France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Finland).

IO PAS is a co-organizer of the special sessions on High Latitudes during the "4th Euro-Argo Science Meeting and Workshop on the Arctic and sub-Polar North Atlantic" which will take place in the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK, on 18-20 June 2013.